Serving in Santiago: Cerro San Cristobal!

FYI: Sarah's email address is:
sarah.cannon@myldsmail.net

Her mailing address is:
Sister Sarah Cannon

Chile Santiago East Mission

Cristobal Colon 6824

Las Condes

Region Metropolitana

Santiago, Chile

This week Sarah sent the following.

Hey everyone!

Today for PDay we went to Cerro San Cristobal! It´s this hill/monument thing in Santiago that is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Google it! haha. It was pretty cool. I like that we get to leave our sectors on P-Day because then I realize that Santiago is more than just Ñuñoa (my sector) and it´s actually a lot cooler than I even know! But yeah we got to see this giant statue of Mary which was cool. There was also a statue of Christ but it was really small and kind of set off to the side :(. It was interesting to see the contrast in what the Catholic church focuses on versus what the Latter-Day Saints focus on.

I have bad news. :(

Jorge´s baptism date fell through again. We went to see him on Tuesday, had an awesome time with him, and then right before we were about to leave, the member we were with mentioned to Jorge that he was going out of town this Sunday but he was going to cancel his trip so he could be at Jorge´s baptism.

Turns out Jorge didn´t realize his baptism date was coming up so fast. He knew it was going to be the 2nd of November but I guess he just hadn´t realized it was that Sunday.

Soooo he went on to say thank you for everything, that he didn´t feel like any of it had been a waste of time even though he wasn´t going to be baptized.

Whaaaaaaa?

It was a hard rest of the day. :(

Especially because his testimony is so solid in the Book of Mormon.

And we love him.

And we want him to get the blessings.

He told us he needed time so that´s exactly what we´re giving him. We haven´t stopped praying for him--we also fasted for him yesterday. And we´re still gonna visit him twice a week. But he needs his time and that´s okay.

He actually confessed to us that he had stopped reading his scriptures which makes a lot of sense. Then when we saw him later that week, I felt prompted to share my testimony about scripture study, prayer, and revelation. So I did and it went really well. Keep praying for him!

Halloween was this week! Our ward had a fun activity we got to go to. Five investigators came! And three of them dressed up! It was awesome. It was probably the coolest Mormon dance party there ever was...even though we didn´t get to dance, being missionaries haha. But yeah Latino ward activities are the BEST. :D

Well I love you all! Thanks for all the support! I hope you all got my updated mailing address!

Muah! xoxo

Hermana Cannon II

p.s. shout out to Eliessa and Chad for getting engaged!!! ahhhh marriage!!!! Love you guys!!!

Pic 1 Cerro San Cristobal